مطالب

Plagiarism is considered as a serious problem in academia around the world. The issue of plagiarism has recently received global inquiry in different fields of science, especially in foreign language (L2) academic writing. To meticulously assess the Iranian academics for plagiarism at both theory and practice grounds, developing an accountable instrument seemed to be inevitable. To bridge the gap, in phase 1 of the study, a conceptual framework for Iranian academics’ grasp of plagiarism and its components was designed after a thorough review of literature. In phase 2, a number of M.A. graduates and graduate students (n = 224) in six State and Islamic Azad universities in Iran were recruited to partake in piloting the newly-designed plagiarism questionnaire. After a two-step revising the inefficient items (n = 11), the final draft of the developed questionnaire with 36 items was administered with the main sample of participants (n = 288). An Exploratory Factor Analysis was performed to identify the components of the instrument, followed by Confirmatory Factor Analysis to measure its construct validity. As a result, the final draft of the Sociocultural Plagiarism Questionnaire contained 31 Likert-point and 5 multiple choice items in four components of awareness (10 items), attitude (8 items), sociocultural beliefs (8 items), and perception (5 Likert-point and 5 multiple choice items), which were suggested as having fundamental contributions to the Iranian academic writers’ sensitivity to plagiarism. Findings of the study suggested that (a) the Iranian academic writers’ normative sociocultural beliefs can probably reduce their sensitivity to plagiarism, (b) while the Iranian academics might have relatively high awareness and deep perception about plagiarism, their attitude toward plagiarism seems relatively neutral or even insensitive.

Le village global, dans lequel nous vivons, donne naissance à un monde transnational où l’homme déterritorialisé apprend qu’il doit s’adapter aux règles de la société hôte pour pouvoir survivre. Ainsi, le monde transnational, redéfinissant les notions de nation et de culture, est-il la matrice de l’hybridation. La littérature narre donc l’histoire de ces populations déterritorialisées : Dany Laferrière en est un bon exemple. La présente étude vise à étudier certains de ses ouvrages, afin de montrer comment un immigrant, expérimentant une vie interstitielle, choisit enfin un mode de vie sans frontières. Nous nous intéresserons au Goût des jeunes filles, Le Cri des oiseaux fous, Le Charme des après-midi sans fin et Chronique de la dérive douce. Cette étude réalisée par l’approche postcoloniale d’Arjun Appadurai et celle d’Homi Bhabha, nous a permis d’expliquer comment un individu exilé, connaissant ses différences dans son rapport à l’autre, arrive à ce point où il décide de choisir un nouveau chemin à parcourir, s’appropriant une identité et une culture hybrides. Ainsi, vivant dans l’entre-deux des temps et des lieux, il choisit de s’adapter à un mode de vie sans frontières et décide pour s’exprimer de devenir l’écrivain d’un roman dont les inspiratrices seront les femmes.